David Marsh

Accountability is fine. One of the few tidbits of information that comes out of fall camp has been how Lanning was wanted to practice in more of the heat of the day but to compensate for that choice he has a cooling tent set up on the field. Then half way through practice not only is everyone told to cool down and get water but they are handing out popsicles. I know that seems insignificant and maybe a little gimmicky... but that isn't unreasonable tough it out culture. Practicing in the heat has been explained as something that they may have to do during the season and not by choice so learning how to push through adversity. But pushing through adversity shouldn't come with a serious detriment to health and ensuring the players get to cool off and keep hydrated is important. I get the feeling with this staff if someone vomits, and thus losing a lot of water, that that player gets to break, get checked out and rehyrdate before getting back on with practice. Remember... a player lost to injury, or severe dehydration or illness, is a player who cannot practice. Or at the very least will not be able to practice and learn in a way that you want them to. Lanning and co are all pretty young and I don't get the sense they are going to go with some of this old school mentality. The science is there to show it works and I am sure there is plenty of science out there that says it doesn't.

Biggest downside is that because of 2020 being the year of crazy Penei opted out. So we all missed out on a two Sewell team. Additionally... Some of the crazy things that have happened. The Sewell family has 3 pac-12 championships. Penei, Noah, and Nephi. And Penei and the eldest of the Sewell brothers, Gabriel Jr, played against each other in 2019. Then obviously Penei played against Nephi in 2019 and Noah and Nephi played against each other last year. The only two Sewell's who did not share a field with one of their brothers is Penei and Noah because of COVID and Penei opting out of the season. He was drafted top 10 so can't say I blame him... Still would have been cool.

There was a tweet awhile ago that listed projected starting line ups and total star ratings for those projected starters. Oregon was right up there with the likes of Georgia, Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State. As always the question always comes down to depth. Because those starters won't be on the field for the entire game. I do feel that Oregon has more depth than ever before. So I think there is certainly a fighting chance against Georgia. Going to need some luck and creativity to get there though.

For a type one diabetic it would be hypoglycemic, low blood sugar, that would come from vomiting. Thus losing the carbohydrates and sugars. Keto acidosis is caused from prolonged hyperglycemia, high blood sugar, which would be a result of a lack of insulin in the body. With athletes the problem is usually low blood sugar already because the body burns up what easy accessible sugars there are right away and then the liver releases back up sugars and then the low blood sugar sets in. I'm a type one diabetic and I don't want to sound like a jerk and be a know it all... I just find that type one diabetes and diabetes in general is misunderstood, even by diabetics! Though yes, you are correct that in the case of a diabetic vomiting during a practice is not healthy and actually low blood sugar is the more immediately dangerous of the two because low blood sugar can, if very low, result in causing an individual to go unconscious, I have personally never had this happen. For some context, the average non-diabetic's blood sugar usually hangs out around 80-110. For type ones we have to manage insulin manually so we can be all over the place but we try to keep it in a decent range (80-160 ideally). In order to pass out due to low blood sugar it usually has to be sub 30ish. I've been as low as 23 and that was awful. Which also means you're out of commission for a good long while, at that level of blood sugar that could seriously take a good 30-40 minutes to stabilize. So best not to get that low to begin with. Though on another level... you working pancreases types can also have low blood sugar, your bodies correct for it on their own. But you will still feel hungry, weak, and tired. This is probably one of the more minor effects of vomiting but another good reason to keep players from vomiting in the first place. I don't know where I was going with all of this... but I hope someone found it interesting.

1 vomit per day is too many. When your body vomits from exercise you've over exerted yourself. It will drain you and make continuing to work out worse. Also vommiting it all around an unpleasant experience. I can't imagine that is good for team moral in the long run. Who wants to run through a wall for someone who over works you to the point you vomit all the time? That's a hard pass for me.

Well I don't have to feed my now 4 month old in the middle of the night now... So I don't need to browse the FishDuck forum during what was the 4am rock back to sleep. So I'm ok with this. Not that I had a say in the first place.

First game of the year and Georgia is breaking in some new starters, a lot of them. Now it would be naive to believe these new starters are wide eyed freshman because they aren't, most of backups who have seen some considerable action. But Bama was able to burn Georgia pretty bad in the SEC championship game by going over their heads. If Oregon can get over the top of the Georgia defense, we are in for a treat.

I do feel like the Ducks in the spring game we're getting enough push at the line of scrimmage that on a pass play the runningback would lock up and engage with a block early. The blocking runningback is usually a safety net of a blocker and typically is there to be the last defense for the quarterback. But if the runningback is focused on defending one angle early in the snap that last line of defense isn't there somewhere else and the delayed blitz can easily exploit that every time.

First off... I'm not sure Cristobal would have let Nix beat Ohio State by double digits. Cristobal's philosophy was do just barely enough to win, especially last year. Even with Herbert the second half of games always seemed like blindingly running the ball to burn clock which always seemed to leave the door open just a crack for the opposing team to get a come back. But I digress there. I do feel like Nix has much better vision than Brown had last year. Brown seemed blind to the middle section of the field and just didn't see recievers running open on thsoe routes. I also feel like under Cristobal Thompson and Butterfield were never given the opportunity to truly compete for thr starting job. Brown was given the starting job in spring and given all first team reps from that point on almost exclusively. However, Nix has managed to beat out Thompson and Butterfield to date which is both a testiment to Nix's skill and a glaring deficit in those of Thompson and Butterfield. So in that I agree with you.

That duck is just too fast for them. Just like how our ducks need to be.

He might be better... But he also cost Texas boosters some NIL cash to get him away from Ohio State. So is there any booster pressure here? Probably not... But in the age of NIL there questions will remain.

The first three weeks of non-conference games I usually find are kinda boring. I usually watch a decent amount of football out of hunger for the game alone but I struggle to find something worth while to watch. I'll always watch Oregon against anyone. But I have zero interest in watching Alabama or Ohio State or whoever beat the crap out of an FCS schools or G5 school. I usually try and seek out the early conference games because those have meaning. Conferences give the game meaning and they give us rivalries which is what is fun. Sure, playing outside the conference is fun and interesting but I don't always find it interesting in the first few weeks of the season. For fun I went back and watched Oregon play Tennessee in 2010 and 2013. It made me smile with how the announcers were all in on Tennessee and seemed a little depressed when Oregon demolished them. But my point is... The announcers and the general punditry around early season games is meaningless. They were all in on Tennessee because of S E C! Then once the year gets rolling I spend most of my Saturday watching Pac-12 games or watching games with potential upsets that can help Oregon. But I usually only watch the 4th quarter.

Pair him with DJ Johnson and you have a combo that could be very difficult to stop. Then let's just throw in Doralus and Funa. Oh and... Sewell and Flowe. Then hopefully to cap it all off we have a solid back end to the defense that can give these pass rushers time to actually get to the quarterback. The last two years there were too many receivers running open for a quick out route that made sacks hard to come by.

But if UCLA stays in the PAC then the PAC will get a better media deal so there is probably something in GKs plan (if it comes to that) that could improve the PACs position in those negotiations. The number that the PAC needs from media revenue to hold onto UCLA may change to something that is obtainable. I do agree though and feel like the punishment for UCLA leaving will probably not amount to enough to make them stay but who knows what could happen.

I find it unlikely that the B1G will invite Cal and Stanford right now to hold onto UCLA. I can see them just taking USC and moving on from West coast expansion if they don't get to dictate the terms. More likely UCLA is forced to stay in the PAC.

They could... The NCAA is bad because they actively do nothing. A new governing body could actively do badly. But I will say it is difficult to do worse than the NCAA currently.

Did I miss something was Jaeden Moore commuted to Washington? I don't recall him being committed to anywhere. It's it husky hubris that they think any recruit should pick them over Oregon. . But I guess that is why they are royalty after all.

This isn't surprising if it comes to pass. It kind of needs to happen as well. College football takes so many resources to administer that really is too much for the NCAA to govern with the other sports. So getting a governming body in place that can just focus on football might mean some of these long standing recruiting infractions might get investigated. Looking at you Tennessee (which the investigation has only now begun). Especially in the world of NIL there needs to be a body that can actually police what is going on.

This is the usual narrative. They said the same things about Justin Herbert as well. And they are saying it about KT also because of his Oregon connection. Anything and everything Oregon is always overrated... Until it isn't. I think Oregon is just one of those schools that sits in a middle ground. Easy to get the blue bloods all fired up by hearing that we actually suck while not causing enough of a stir to really anger a fan base. Oregon doesn't have quite enough fans for that.

It will be interesting to see how the strength and conditioning program has worked out the offensive linemen. By the spring game they really hadn't had too much time to get to work with the linemen. Hopefully the new S&C staff are able to get their bodies more in line with what is needed to make the offense go. The other takeaway to keep in mind too is that the spring game is very difficult to gauge how successful the offensive line was as they were mixed units. Hopefully the offensive line is able to get healthy and with a consistent group of linemen they can get settled into better blocking.

It would be nice if Oregon gets him. I think USC is going to land him though.

I really wanted to mention how Washington lost to an FCS team there... It just didn't seem to fit the tone of the overall article. And it article was already pushing the upper end of length as well. Thank you for bringing that up because it is always good to hear.

That's what the FCS schools do right now to find most of their programs. And even the best FCS teams put up with it because those games don't effect their chances to make the FCS playoff. There is no risk of those cross divisional games only a payday. I could see the traditionalists taking on the same model. Go get paid by Ohio State but don't worry it won't effect your post season.

I think the number of super conference teams would be sustainable below 40. There are only 32 NFL teams and I do think the eventual unequal profit sharing will driving any teams out of the super conferences. One sided beatdowns don't drive viewership either in person or on TV. Eventually the TV executives are going to want a better on field product and to sell.

Where do you want the Ducks to end up? In my last article where I introduced the split to college football I said the Ducks can fall on either side. We have the resources to hang with the power houses or at least a whole lot closer than the vast majority of the college football world... But I could see Oregon also deciding to be a bigger fish in a different pond so that the powers at be don't have to spend all the money. I like to think of this option like how the North Dakota fan base may approach any thoughts of moving from FCS to FBS. North Dakota is a very big fish in the FCS pond. They could join an FBS conference and potentially a power 5 conference and not be a bottom feeder. Given enough time they may even become a very good FBS team. But to do so they would have to spend a ton of money to get their program ready for the FBS level and they would be looking at some pretty bad seasons along the way. And for what? The prestige factor? North Dakota is very happy with their situation as it is and it isn't worth trying to make the leap. And I didn't even factor NIL into this scinario. I think Oregon is sitting just outside of the blue bloods right now. Phil Knight has put an insane amount of money to get us into competition with them but we haven't quite made the huno yet. If Oregon had to decide now which way to go semi-pro or traditionalist... I think in this moment the majority of fans would want semi-pro out of the prestige, pride and ego. Personally I think I might like traditionalist more and let the semi-pros play their game and Oregon gets to maintain the rivalries we have left.